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If I'm relic hunting the racer stays in 2 tone, I love it. On modern sites where I'm cherry picking coins I use D3, but don't like the mid tone. I basically have to disc out iron because the low and mid are so close to my ear. Normally I like to hear iron but can miss low conductors in D3 if I'm not real careful.
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Since you're early in your explorer journey, you may want to give conductive sounds another shot and iron mask 12 a try if you're not in extreme iron. Ive dug alot of pennies at 11" even with the disc. (Manual sensitivity starting around 26+). With these settings unless you're in horrible dirt if you get a good solid repeatable tone it's a non ferrous high conductor. Occ
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Great info guys. Does it in fact ratchet? That's my favorite feature of the trx, though being the garret is the entire shaft I can see it being less useful.
Canslaw, if I'm understanding it correctly not sure why it would have an auto detune feature in the first place?
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Both of my trx's just keep progressively drifting out of tune. I'm thinking about trying out the carrot. The original pro pointer broke on the 3rd hole for me, swore off them due to the switch design. Supposedly the orange model has a new switch, more power, and I believe ratchets also (big deal for me). Still not much legit info out there. Thoughts?
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With the way the colored ID bar at the top, pie chart, calculator looking numbers, etc. Can't help but wonder if there's some OEM type supplying a parts for them and nokta/makro. I know Makro mentioned outsourcing a few things, like the company that made their coils with thin ears?
Happens alot w/fishing reels. Companies called Doyo and Banax make most reels. They make it to the spe
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No right or wrong, but it's important to remember "relic hunting" is not the same thing to all of us. For example fisher called the f19 "the best relic machine ever" in their ad copy. I kind of snickered when I saw the stock coil size. Around here along Lee's retreat, relic hunting needs are covering ground and depth, if one were to make a concession it would be ID a
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When relic hunting wooded sites, I always look for limbs/logs/brush that appear to have been in place for a while and would be in the way of someone's coil. You just know it was physically impossible to swing there. It's produced a bout a half dozen Minnie balls the last 2 trips at a buddies pounded Yankee fort lately.
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Have you considered the new larger DD tesoro just came out with? Looks very promising and should fare much better in the dirt you describe than that concentric. I had a shocking experience swapping a 950 concentric for a 10x12 DD on the MXT. That said after spending a few weeks running a deus I'm certain a used one for around a grand will make you quite happy, and sell easily if youre not.
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Certainly marketing at play, but often it will point you in the right general direction (some worse than others). You guys think detectors are bad, Bass fishing rods take it to the extreme. All over a fish that averages a pound lol
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Aint that sound sweet? So the company is still operating in some capacity? Id heard it was pretty much done. Good to hear. I need to get jerry talley to balance my 10" coil soon.
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detectingMO Wrote:
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> > know I keep saying it but I'd really like
> > something between the 7x11 and big coils.
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> NEL Hunter
I should have been more clear; was talking about the racer
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You guys are a tough crowd! Back on topic I may get one and slap a 13" ultimate on it. Most of my spots all the stuff is deep. I've found a few 10" mines w/the racer and stock coil, but that's pushing it to the brink at least based on audio. I know I keep saying it but I'd really like something between the 7x11 and big coils.
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Never found one. A friend pulled an eagle at 1880-1920's poor black house site near my families property with a dmc iib. I've been all over it since, never any coinage other than injuns. Losing that coin had to hurt somebody bad.
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No personal experience, but my son is the same age and after researching I'm leaning towards the F44. Plenty of features to hold his interest and grow with, while being fairly light weight. The teardrop concentric will pin point well and not have him chasing bottlecaps like a lot of DD's.
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Ray my wife picked me up a little deal for fathers day that fits on a 5 gallon bucket like a lid, with a screen in the bottom more from prosepcting I suppose. Works pretty dang good especially on those remote sites, takes ALOT more screened dirt to fill a bucket than one would believe. I have a larger 4x8 setup I built, need to put her to work soon if the daily thunderatorms ever take a break.
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Curious how many of you have ever done it? Ive dabbled some over the years, had some eye opening experiences. In addition to targets being masked, finding clay pipes, old clay marbles, buttons, even small medicine bottles and such.
Ive pounded a site for the last two months with the racer, explorer 2, and a deus. Its been very good to me. CW buttons, coins (including my 1st trime), seated, hal
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Cal_cobra Wrote:
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> I'm more a scrapper then a stompper, especially
> when hunting areas with a lot of iron, I find that
> scrapping off the top of the ground will sometimes
> remove some small bits of iron junk giving you a
> better signal (especially in ghost town type areas
> where there's a lot of surfac
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I have one and rarely use it...very well made and high quality. Feels good in hand. However the blade is just too small for me. If youve never held one its probably smaller than you think. Feels like I'm digging with a spoon, and you have to be very careful not to hit targets. I find its easier to cut a larger/deeper plug w/a modified drain spade type shovel, leaving less sign of my digging
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> Deadlift that is an excellent reason to exclude
> Germany from the rest of Europe,BUT not the answer
> go-rebels was fishing for.
I'm absolutely with you doc, figured Id make those points before socialism is praised.
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go-rebels Wrote:
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> It must be a miserable existence going through
> life looking for something to be butt hurt about.
> Always a victim, always someone else's fault,
> always a boogey man to blame. All we hear out of
> more and more people is what's wrong and evil
> about our great nation.
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> Yo
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It must be a miserable existence going through life looking for something to be butt hurt about. Always a victim, always someone else's fault, always a boogey man to blame. All we hear out of more and more people is what's wrong and evil about our great nation. In fact our great leader has done nothing but tell us how morally reprehensible we are for over half a decade. And no, when loo
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Its sad that the whole reason behind this people trying to seize an opurtunity in the aftermath of a genuine tragedy by a sick young man to push an agenda. I cant help but wonder anytime these things come up, if the most vocal are truely, TRUELY hurt or offended? No, they just want to be on the "right" side of the "outrage". The honorable state of south carolina should make
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Yeap. Different animal from the spectrum, which I loved. They werent super deep but they were silky smooth. If they made an xlt that was a bit hotter and had a tight DD coil Id be the first in line. On the V, You can run it in mixed or all metal mode and move a little quicker. I pulled some deep deep targets w/the V in all metal single freq, then switching to disc to check targets. If you can ju
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Deus. Cw relic hunting is often about covering ground and occasionally working in the iron. Two things the xp smokes the V at.Also an ergonomic joy to swing. Depth is pretty comparable. They both get down there. Found the V to be deep but u have to run the 5hz band filter which requires a foot per SECOND sweep speed to get max depth (this is whites reccomendation).
If you were just park huntin
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